Tessa Says

High Praise for Megan's Honor Band Concert

2011-11-17T08:31:00.000-08:00

November 15, 2011

"I didn't even read my book once!"

Dr. Seuss

2011-10-27T21:24:00.000-07:00

tuesday october 25, 2011

"I like Dr Seuss; he's a good writer. All of his stories teach something.Gurtrude McFuzz shows us we should all just be who we are. Yertle the Turtle teaches that everyone is important, it doesn't matter who you are. At least that's how I see it. Someone else might see it differently."

time

2011-08-27T13:35:00.000-07:00

august 2011

"If I could just turn back the clock, I would not jump off my bed."

A real, live baseball player signed her cast.

2011-08-01T23:07:00.001-07:00

July, 2011

(#17 Joe Dvorsky of the Great Falls Voyagers)

"I started off jumping, but then I fell."

Honor your father & mother

2011-07-28T10:20:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken at Mrs. Jones' 100th birthday in 2009

June 2011

"Mom, the Bible says if you obey your mom and dad you'll live a long and happy life. Well, Mrs. Jones must've been VERY good at that."

(We were all very sad when Mrs. Jones passed away last week at the age of 102.)

Prettiful

2011-07-22T16:41:00.000-07:00

Tessa: I'm prettiful!

Daddy: Prettiful?

Tessa: Yeah, full of pretty!

mirror, mirror, on the wall

2011-03-08T15:01:00.000-08:00

"How I tell how I look is by looking down, but I can't see my face so that's why I like mirrors."

k is for kute

2011-02-14T19:27:00.000-08:00

"It annoys me because it says 'cars' but it's spelled with a 'k'."

setting the bar high

2010-12-19T19:38:00.000-08:00

"Look, I have three candy canes.

My goal is to get five."

Witches Brew

2010-10-27T15:09:00.001-07:00

Tessa's Recipe for Witches Brew

2 frog leg's

12 scal's of a Snake

5 spiter leg's

6 cat eyball's

9 hot dog's

1 spiter

4 modey chees

9 finger nell's

6 carrot Top's

9 Bat wings

12 fish

16 pumcen's

and 1 gost

money

2010-10-25T20:56:00.000-07:00

"Money is very hard to get. Trust me."

not anymore

2010-10-08T22:50:00.000-07:00

september 3, 2010

i was a daddy's girl once for a couple of days.

i don't deserve her

2010-10-07T18:41:00.001-07:00

"To mom

I Love you

so much

I wold die

for you To

stay aliv

Love

Tessa"

saving up for a house

2010-09-17T19:31:00.000-07:00

"When I move out, before I get my house, I think I'll go up into the mountains and camp until I have enough money."

about our backyard

2010-09-13T16:52:00.000-07:00

"If I was a little kid I would think it was the best place in the world."

why she doesn't play during recess anymore

2010-08-31T15:46:00.000-07:00

"It's more funner to do different stuff when you grow up. Not, like, play, but you know, just talk."

why I can't be the kid & have her be the mom

2010-08-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

"Because I don't know how to be the mom. Besides, I don't have that much money."

For her upcoming birthday

2010-07-20T17:42:00.000-07:00

we took Tessa to get her ears pierced. I asked, "Do you like having your ears pierced?"

"Yes," she answered, "but it changes almost everything."

for me

2010-07-14T19:39:00.001-07:00

"I love you

from you know who

to mommy"

big words

2010-07-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

July 2, 2010

"Mom, I'm a little dehydrated."

I think she likes learning and using new, big words.

even though

2010-05-23T08:48:00.000-07:00

"I like Megan, even though she's mean."

flips

2010-05-16T08:23:00.000-07:00

Daddy: Tessa why do you do flips on the couch all of the time?

Tessa: Because it's the only thing I can do flips on.

of course we did

2010-04-13T09:49:00.000-07:00

Early this morning Tessa came in after having had a nightmare

"Mommy, did we invent snuggling?"

If only...

2010-03-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

big sigh followed by:

"If only I could teach Peppy to be smart."

AFTER eating her apple sauce (ugh!)

2010-03-16T19:32:00.000-07:00

Why do we need spoons when we have fingers?

pluto

2010-02-27T11:08:00.000-08:00

into a fake cell phone, "Where are you now, Pluto?!"

then looking at me to clarify, "My friend, not the planet."

crafting

2010-02-21T12:55:00.000-08:00

"When you're older you can't think of that much stuff to make, huh? And when you're older you think it's just a waste of paper."

aging

2010-02-17T14:03:00.000-08:00

"13 is a teenager. And 14, and 15. And 16. And 17 and 18 and 19. What's 20, Mom?"

"A grown-up" (well, sorta)

"So 20 all of the way up is a grown-up and when you get to 100, then you are old."

one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

2009-11-04T17:46:00.000-08:00

mid-october, 2009

after thoughtful consideration, Mr. Gump and his seven hump wump was the final, deciding factor for Tessa to determine,

"This book is definitely fiction!"

in the future

2009-10-28T19:03:00.000-07:00

sometime last year

"When I grown up and get married, where will you and daddy live?"

because this is, after all, her house...

why she hit her sister...

2009-10-18T09:14:00.000-07:00

october 17, 2009

"It's just that when I get mad I get really strong"

learning to read

2009-09-01T20:06:00.001-07:00

"Now I know how people learn to read! They just magically know all of the words.

That's how I did it."

broom

2009-08-30T16:06:00.000-07:00

August 30, 2009

"If only this was a real broom, then I could take my feet off the ground."

about a boy up the street

2009-08-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

August 11, 2009

"He's cute for a little dude but he's not cute for, you know,like, love.

when I grow up

2009-08-07T17:58:00.000-07:00

"I don't think I'll be a juggler when I grow up."

way back then

2009-08-03T21:40:00.000-07:00

August 3, 2009

"When I was five I didn't know that much stuff."

the kinda bad part about being a grown-up

2009-08-02T08:59:00.000-07:00

August 1, 2009

"You have to yell at little kids all of the time"

(seriously? is this all she thinks we do? oh dear.)

back in the day

2009-07-25T13:06:00.000-07:00

"I still remember when I was five."

(Um ... earlier this week?)

about being a grown-up

2009-07-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

July 22, 2009

"The good thing about being a grown-up is that you get to eat cake whenever you want.

The bad thing about being a grown-up is that you are too big to play on the playground."

she lost her first tooth

2009-07-03T11:19:00.000-07:00

"I was like, 'Did it come out or something? 'Cause it kinda hurts.'"

"I didn't think I would lose a tooth till I was, like, six!" (which will be in less than 3 weeks)

and how does she feel? "Happy, but when I swallow it tastes gross."

nuts

2009-06-29T21:49:00.001-07:00

"I used to like nuts, but my tastes have changed."

(maybe she just likes m&m's more?)

Daddy & Mommy Long-legs

2009-06-22T09:47:00.001-07:00

"Are Mommy-legs nice?"

about going for a walk

2009-06-21T09:31:00.000-07:00

"You don't go for a walk without a grown-up because the police will catch you."

and

"Police are actually nice and not mean."

(both of these facts she learned from personal experience when she was only 3. Oh dear.)

at dinner today

2009-06-20T19:31:00.000-07:00

"You know how sometimes when you are about to eat something and you get the feeling you aren't going to like it? Well, I just felt like that."

about Aunt Sarah's dogs...

2009-06-14T06:49:00.001-07:00

"I know how to tell which one is which.

Oscar is the jumpy one

and Olive isn't."

school

2009-06-07T18:55:00.000-07:00

Just a few minutes ago T and I had this conversation. Keep in mind they just got out for summer on Friday.

Tessa: Mommy? When do we go back to school?

Me: At the end of August.

Tessa: Ohhhh!

Me: You want to go back to school?

Tessa: I want to go to first grade!

muscles

2009-06-03T19:47:00.001-07:00

May 30, 2009

"My feets got big muscles, see?"

One from Lizzy

2009-05-29T07:46:00.000-07:00

a conversation with my then (January 2005) four-year-old Lizzy.

Lizzy asked: How do people stay in heaven?

a little perplexed by the question I answered: Well, God can do anything so if He wants us in heaven, then we stay there.

Lizzy was thoughtful for a minute before she continued: But clouds get slippery!

which is worse?

2009-05-27T09:26:00.001-07:00

December 3, 2008

"Mom, what do you think hurts more, a scraped elbow or a baby coming out of your belly?"

glue

2009-05-24T16:30:00.000-07:00

April 6, 2009

"You don't eat glue, even though it's yummy."

backyard

2009-05-23T08:50:00.000-07:00

April, 2009

Tess: Mom, remember when I used to go potty in the backyard because I didn't want to come inside?

Me: No, I don’t. When was that?

Tess: Yesterday.

vacation

2009-05-22T19:03:00.000-07:00

May, 2009

"Mom, what's that thing where you go with your family in the summer, it's kind of like a field trip but you sleep there?"

about a dog

2009-05-21T15:46:00.000-07:00

about the neighbor's new puppy...

“I can tell it’s a girl because it looks cute. Boys don’t look cute. Pepper (our dog) doesn’t look cute and he’s a boy. (thoughtful pause) But human boys look cute!”

office supplies

2009-05-21T07:45:00.000-07:00

from October, 2008

"Mommy, where is that stamp thing that you put papers together and then (claps her hands) puts a bullet in it?"

on being cute

2009-05-20T09:56:00.000-07:00

April 30:

"God only knows how cute I can get."

(an actual, heartfelt statement, not intended to be in any way disrespectful)

***

Yesterday:

"It makes you feel cute when the wind goes in your hair, huh?"

***

Today:

Tessa is brushing her hair before going to play with Elijah and explaining, "You know how girls want to look cute for boys even though they are not going to marry them just yet."